Editing Minnesota Muskies (section)

=== 1967–68 ABA season ===
{{see also|1967–68 Minnesota Muskies season}}
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" 
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Eastern Division Standings
! Team !! W !! L !! PCT. !! GB
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| align="left" | [[Pittsburgh Pipers]] || 54 || 24 || .692 || –
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| align="left" | '''Minnesota Muskies''' || 50 || 28 || .641 || 4
|-
| align="left" | [[Indiana Pacers]] || 38 || 40 || .487 ||16
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| align="left" | [[Kentucky Colonels]] || 36 || 42 || .462 || 18
|-
| align="left" | [[New Jersey Americans]] || 36 || 42 || .462 || 18
|}

For their success on the court, the Muskies were a complete bust off the court. They lost an estimated $400,000 in their [[1967–68 ABA season|first and only season]]. They only averaged 2,800 people per game, but it might have been far less, given that they only sold 100 season tickets at the time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/wolves/138368709.html|title = Rand: Minnesota Muskies anyone?|website = [[Star Tribune]]}}</ref> The Muskies' management sought to make changes for the upcoming 1968–69 season with the team planning to play nine of their home games at other locations in Minnesota and signed a favorable television contract. In spite of this, the owners decided to relocate the franchise to [[Miami]], [[Florida]] on May 24, 1968, for the 1968–69 ABA season. Prior to the start of that season, the team was forced to sell off Daniels to the Indiana Pacers in a trade for cash in order to pay off accumulated debts from the previous season.

However, Minnesota was not left without an ABA team for long, as the league champion Pipers ironically relocated to Minneapolis to play as the [[Minnesota Pipers]] for the 1968–69 ABA season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/PTC/|title = Pittsburgh Condors Franchise Index}}</ref> The franchise would move back to Pittsburgh after their own sole season in Minnesota, with the ABA not bothering to return to Minnesota again following [[George Mikan]]'s resignation as commissioner of the ABA and subsequently moving the ABA's headquarters to [[New York City|New York]] (who would also be home to the [[Brooklyn Nets|New York Nets]] for the rest of the ABA's tenure) instead.

The [[Minnesota Timberwolves]] wore Muskies uniforms for six games during the [[2011–12 NBA season]] as part of the NBA's "Hardwood Classics".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.startribune.com/sports/wolves/138368709.html|title = Rand: Minnesota Muskies anyone?|website = [[Star Tribune]]}}</ref>